Some ideals which people believe in, are fictitious and serve as lip-service in the politically correct newspeak of certain dominant position elites.

The point is aimed towards the so called rights holders, or more accurately, the US Content Monopolies (USCM) aka MPAA.

Copyrights are a relatively new monopoly. Without getting into its history, its current monstrous appetite for taxing end-users has grown exponentially with the fast spread of the internet and the digitization of sound and video.

When copyright laws were designed, as early as late 19th century, digital media was not even science fiction. Copyrights were intended to protect the economic rights of writers and composers, at times when distribution of their works was limited to 4 or 5 digits volumes, at best. It was thought that an author deserves the right to be compensated by those who consume his work. It was obvious that if someone will copy his work and sell it, the author would lose the income he was expecting and was entitled to. Thus an arrangement with public libraries was made so that they could purchase several copies of copyright books and loaned to the public for a fee.

Today’s technology enables easy distribution of the 3 most desired content types: movies, TV shows and popular music. Once these are digitized, they can be distributed via the internet by torrents to anyone who has a CPU (pc, mac, tablet, smartphone or streamer) linked to the internet. That’s practically everybody anywhere.

The USCM people fight the people who cannot afford to buy a box office ticket or to pay for a cable or satellite subscription. It’s obvious that watching one’s favorite TV series chapter as soon as it’s released, or buying a VOD, is cool, extremely convenient and fun. But it costs. US$99 (average) monthly in the US and more in Europe. The average monthly salary in the developed countries is between US$10,000 to US$1,200. In third world countries it’s significantly less.

People who struggle to support their families, cannot afford to pay cable, satellites and VOD. They do manage to link to the internet. Thus Netflix, where available, P2P, Popcorn Time etc. are their only solution for content consumption. The USCM will never make a nickel from them, because their alternative is not to watch movies, TV shows or listen to music albums. If the torrents or Popcorn Time option is unavailable, they will watch YouTube or porn (66% of young men and 16% of young women watch porn weekly!). But USCM will haunt the people that bring free or affordable decent content!.

By using the power money can buy, the USCM managed to maintain its monopoly (in many cases they claim copyrights for 70 years following the death of the last person who contributed to the work). In much more vital areas, monopoly power is restricted and regulated: Lifesaving pharmaceuticals are protected for maximum 20 years, and only if a patent was granted. Utility and nonfunctional designs — for less (depending in which country).

Even cable and satellite are forced to allow their competitors to use their infrastructure for a regulated fee. Networks are subject to “force to sell” regimes, under which they must provide everybody with desired content, such as sport.

This brings about the conclusion that it is all about politics and political power and immoral tradeoffs between administrations and huge money interests. There cannot be any other reason for the Polish authorities keeping the Ukrainian citizen Artem Vaulin, the creator of KickAss Torrents, in custody, for almost six months, awaiting a decision to extradite him to the US, as if he was a war criminal. The governments of this world cannot stop terrorists from communicating within their organization via Facebook, WhatsUp, and other media networks, although they can, but govern who may watch a movie and who may not.

The forecast for 2017 is that sharing of information and content in the internet will grow, and the monopolies over older content (other than box office tickets, current seasons TV series, new music albums, etc) will not be enforced because more content providers will replace those who would be shut. The files containing content are out there, in huge numbers and throughout disbursed locations of sites, being the sites of sharing, P2P users.

A new contribution to this development will be a Public Torrent Tracker Free for all, to facilitate the free or affordable content consumption.
It can be found on: https://popcorn-tracker.org

Popcorn Time version 5.6 Beta for desktops now enables watching seamlessly DUBBED MOVIES!

Popcorn Time is an absolutely free service which enables millions of people worldwide to watch almost all the movies that were ever screened on this planet or TV shows without being required to connect to sites full of click-baits, to pick a torrent.

Popcorn Time is a no-income not-for-profit activity. Its main objective is to make the films available to anybody, so that culture is spread, also to those who are unable to consume it otherwise, whether because they cannot afford to buy expensive dvd’s or to subscribe to a local cable or satellite service or to Netflix.

However, most films are English speaking and most people on the globe do not speak English. Many people who studied English, do not master it well enough to enjoy a movie. Until now, we’ve provided a feature which allows the user to watch subtitles which are synced to the show, in the language he reads. But it’s not the same as hearing the texts in the language the user understands. It’s really less pleasing.

This version introduces brand new and unique feature: Movies speaking French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese, allowing users to enjoy the film in his own language. Now, Popcorn-Time.to is the only online provider of Movies speaking these languages as seamlessly as watching a movie in English.

It’s certainly good for children’s shows. The little ones can’t read yet. So work is done to provide dubbed movies in more languages.

It’s good for millions of people that just recently discovered the vast choice of entertainment found easily on Popcorn Time but do not properly understand the language of the film.

Every human being should be able to enjoy the most popular part of modern culture in his spare time. Any improvement of Popcorn Time serves this purpose. It is common knowledge that words alone are insufficient. This wisdom is a call for action. In other words: “When you have to shoot – shoot, don’t talk“. So a shot was taken and millions of people can enjoy movies speaking their language.

Currently on desktops (android coming soon).

Keep watching:

Dubbed Children movies in German, Dutch, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Arabic are expected in the near future.

Also, the new version will present optional subtitles of the same language, for user’s convenient selection.

Multiple subtitles selection, Popcorn Time version 5.6 beta.

Good news for 4K monitors: the new version looks better on 4K displays, meaning that Popcorn Time’s UI is bright and clear and all its buttons are of a nicer size and easily accessible.

*not all movies or TV shows are dubbed, but we are working on adding more and more titles every day. More languages to be available in the near future.

Well, since our user-base has become huge (we love you guys!) and one VPN company can no longer provide good, solid enough VPN support for all dedicated users and since your anonymity is of top priority for us and the ultimate solution we’ve been working on for months which will provide you all free protection with no problem is not yet ready, we’ve decided to open our API to third party VPN companies (experimental) to integrate with! In the meantime we have one company who has integrated already (Anonymous VPN) and we’re hoping that in the near future many more will integrate and thus will offer competitive subscriptions and, bottom line, the best support and protection for our awesome users!

VPN Companies, You can find the API documentation here.* Any VPN company who would like to integrate our API and needs help with this, please contact us on this email: thetime4popcorn@gmail.com

As some of you may have noticed, we released beta 2.7.3 for Android about a week ago.

The main change in this version, is that we created a feature which will enable the user to choose the app’s download location whether it’ll download the content to the device’s internal memory, or external SD card. This solves the issue of “not enough space” some users were having.
To choose app’s download location, a user must go to settings menu and there under downloads section, choose cache folder and choose the location which has more space.

We’ve just released a new desktop version, which has many bug fixes and a few new features for ya’ll! If you don’t get the update for some reason, just download it from www.popcorn-time.to

What has been fixed?

1. Chromecast and Apple TV buttons, which were a bit shy in previous versions and were “hiding” are back where they should be! No need to scroll. We also made some Chromecast support updates and it should run more smoothly.

2. Application start up time improved!! Now it opens up like a panther

Other than that we really improved torrent download speed so try it out and get dazzled by the amazing experience.

Also we did some work on subtitles support which has been lacking a bit because of a bug we had. We added many subtitles to movies and TV shows that lacked them and we promise to keep working and adding and fixing until all content is subtitled in *almost* all languages out there!!!

That’s it for now, we’re working on huge things for desktop which will be ready in the near future, so big awesome surprises are in store for you all. Stay tuned and as always, SPREAD THE WORD!